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On 30/11/2012 17:48, Neil Winchurst wrote:
And officially only available to the printer manufacturer's technicians anyway.On 30/11/12 11:15, tom wrote:I have done some more searching and what I have found will please Simon Avery even more!!!Can you connect to the printer and ask it what is wrong - some do have diagnostics Tom te tom te tomI have found out that inkjets lose a lot of their ink inside the printer, partly when the heads are cleaned, which is collected in a small tank and by some absorbent pads which live somewhere inside the printer. This could eventually cause a mess so the manufacturers also include a counter in the software. This will count every page that you print and when the counter reaches a preset value you get this problem. The lights will flash and the printer will no longer work.The plan is that you should send your printer to have the pads replaced and the tank cleared out. This will cost more than some new printers. So you may elect to buy a replacement. Either way more profit for the manufacturers.There is a program available to reset the counter but it is of course Windows only.
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